COMMON COM Comprehension
1. Recall What language did each grandparent speak to his or her
grandchildren?
2. Recall In “It Was a Long Time Before," why did Grandma A'mooh
take care of her grandchild?
3. Clarify By the end of each poem, what has happened to each
grandparent?
Text Analysis
4. Make Inferences In "it was a long time before," why did Grandma
A'mooh still insist on filling the coal bucket?
5. Recognize Characterization Reread lines 3, 9, and 12 of "Abuelito Who."
What do these descriptions tell you about Abuelito?
6. Analyze Point of View From what point of view is each of these poems

Write an adaptation for an audience expecting a modern english answer ! shakespeare’s language: but soft, what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east and juliet is the sun! arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou her maid art far more fair than she. be not her maid, since she is envious; her vestal livery is but sick and green, and none but fools do wear it. cast it off. it is my lady, o, it is my love! o that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that? her eye discourses, i will answer it. i am too bold: 'tis not to me she speaks. two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyesto twinkle in their spheres till they return. what if her eyes were there, they in her head? the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp. her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so brightthat birds would sing and think it were not night. see how she leans her cheek upon her hand o that i were a glove upon that hand, that i might touch that cheek!

If a poet wants to tell an exciting story using a quick rhythmic pattern, what poetic form would best fit this function

How would “in a station or the metro” change of the bough was bright and lovely rather than wet and black a: the station would seem cheerier b: the poem would not be considered imagist c: the people would seem less pleasant. d: the poem would no longer be hokku